LOS ANGELES, CA — Before we highlight all of what took place in Game 4 of the 2025 World Series Tuesday night in Los Angeles, let’s briefly skim over some historical facts from the marathon of Game 3. There were 609 pitches thrown in total for the 18-inning WS classic.
FOX Sports analyst and former 14-time MLB All-Star Alex Rodríguez said in the postgame, “Over 600 pitches, those players must be so tired.” That’s true, but what about home plate umpire Mark Wegner having to squat 609 times? A Marine in boot camp for consecutive 13 weeks doesn’t even do that. Will Smith caught all 18 innings becoming the first catcher in the history of the World Series to ever do that.
Freddie Freeman became the only player in World Series History to hit two walk-off home runs (Game 1 of 2024 WS vs. NYY and Game 3 of 2025 WS vs. TOR). The game last six hours and thirty nine minutes from start to finish, with a pitch clock. Shohei Ohtani had nine at-bats and reached base all nine times with five walks, four of which were intentional. One of those intentional walks was with no one on base. Think about that…
So how do the Blue Jays and Dodgers top all that? It was pretty easy with Shotime.
Coming off a night where he reached base nine times in Game 3 of 2025 World Series, less than 16 hours later, Shohei Ohtani was ready to go to take the mound in Game 4 – Image Credit: Emma Sharon/Latino Sports
Shohei Ohtani, the starting pitcher for Game 4, batting lead-off after going 4 for 4 with two doubles and two home runs to go along with those five walks against Toronto’s Shane Bieber, a former American League Cy Young Award winner from 2020. On both sides, the starting pitchers in Game 4 were expected and hoping to go very deep in their respective outings because both teams literally emptied their bullpens less than 16 hours from first pitch.
The Dodgers were the first team to use ten pitchers in a World Series game while the Blue Jays trolled out nine.
LA manager Dave Roberts had a busy Monday night, calling the bullpen consistently in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series vs. Toronto – Image Credit: Emma Sharon/Latino Sports
To light up the scoreboard first in Game 4, the Dodgers scored when Max Muncy walked, Tommy Edman moved him to third with a single to center field, and “Mr October,” Kiké Hernández, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Muncy—giving Ohtani a 1-0 lead after two innings.
Then it was Toronto’s turn to get on the board when, the 2021 AL LatinoMVP Vladimir Guerrero Jr., born in Canada, and raised in the Dominican Republic, hit a two-run home run into the left field pavilion of Dodger Stadium, giving the Jays a 2-1 lead.
Except for those two innings, both Bieber and Ohtani were going through hitters like butter. Bieber left after 5.1 innings with a line of one run and four hits, throwing 81 pitches, 48 for strikes. Ohtani left after giving up a single and a double in the sixth inning, with a line of fours runs, six hits, and six strikeouts, totaling 93 pitches, 60 for strikes.
Anthony Banda relieved him and promptly gave up a run-scoring single to Andrés Giménez, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, and another run on a fielder’s choice. Both runs were charged to Ohtani.
Banda lasted four batters and was relieved by Blake Treinen, who also promptly gave up back-to-back singles that scored two more runs. Once again, the Dodgers’ bullpen could not keep it a one-run game as the Blue Jays batted around and took a 6-1 lead after seven innings.
Los Angeles did score one run in the bottom of the ninth inning and was not dead yet, but for Game 4, in one inning, their relievers took an exciting one-run game and turned it into a disastrous 6-2 loss. With the series now tied at two games each, Toronto gets to take this series back home, where they have a tremendous advantage—one that could see them win the World Series in front of their fans.
The 2025 World Series between the Blue Jays and Dodgers, tied up at 2-2, is now a best of three series with Game 5 set to be played in Los Angeles and Games 6 and 7* (if necessary) in Toronto – Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports
“Yesterday was a tough loss, but we flush it right away,” said Guerrero Jr., marking his seventh homer of this postseason. “To us, it’s one game at a time, one pitch at a time.”
“I believe in this team, man. This team is something special.”
On one last note, the relievers in Dodger Blue are perfect for Hollywood, as they follow their script to the letter, delivering gut-wrenching disaster-movie scenes in the theater of a ballpark time and time again.
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